Super OT: Football Fan Violence Caught on Tape

This is super OT, but it's too good not to share. A fight broke out in the stands at the Vikings-Rams game. I'll let you watch for yourselves (and can someone smarter than me imbed (or embed?) the video?), but the punchline is that the guy with high ground who throws the first punch and looks like he's winning the fight gets thrown like a chihuahua down 5 rows of bleachers...

IDK about that. I think some people just enjoy fighting, which is why they enjoy sports. That symbolism of tribal combat just brings it out in people that are already looking for a little physical excitement in their lives.

Though, alcohol is probably what allows it to bubble to the surface, I generally think it's probably there under the surface already.

Also, we got NOTHING on soccer fans. Football Hooligans literally have gangs that run around and beat the piss out of each other every match day.

On a more serious note (or question maybe?), what is it about NFL football that makes 30-60 year old white guys think they're tough and want to fight?

My experience attending a few NFL games in the past, and many many NCAA games in recent years, ALCOHOL is what drives these idiots into thinking they can and will fight anyone...Thus a primary reason selling alcohol at a college game is not a great idea, better ways to create revenue and not risk the consequences, no matter how few incidents there would be...it's not worth the PR and risk.

Usually I only attend Michigan games, but had an opportunity to attend a non-Lions NFL game last season and it was a circus up in the 300s. People got drunker and drunker. Seemed like by the time the 3rd and 4th quarter was around, there were a steady stream of people being thrown out by security in the upper deck. A few people came close to fistfights too (some from the same fanbase too). I appreciate that Michigan is a dry stadium

There are plenty of people who get wasted before entering college football stadiums. I think it might have to do with college fans having a higher percentage of college graduates with a higher socioeconomic status

I think that plays into it, but I do think that the fact that people (generally) are not continuing to drink keeps thinks somewhat in control. When people can just drink and drink and drink through the game, it naturally gets rowdier

I think alcohol is what makes them want to fight. When that happy feeling wears off and belligerence creeps in, the game starts to get personal. Then you're tense the whole time and there's nothing you can do about what's happening on the field, so you look down at the smug asshole in front of you whose cheers for [whatever NFL team seems most like sparty] seem directed at YOU more than at the game, so you decide that maybe there is something you can do after all! Who is he to be cheering like that? I hate that guy! Whammo! Next thing you're five rows down.

The dude who took the 3-4 punches and then tossed the dude is a definite beast. He probably hurt like hell the next day (at least his face had to), but holy shit, that dude has some major balls. I would not want to cross him in a dark alley.

"Hey, this is going great! I am landing punches at will here, and I am going to win this....HOLY SHIT, I'm flying through the air. Fuck, I'm about to land on the hardest plastic seat on Earth. Yep, there it is, my C4 and C5 vertebrae just got crushed. Fuuuuucccckkkkk..."

I don't see it that the tosser was a beast. The guy that got tossed was leaning in a little and the tosser had gravity on his side. The tosser just helped tossee "lean" a little more and Newton's law of universal gravitation took over.

Reminds me of a bachelor party I went to and one member of our party fought two guys of another bachelor party about which bank they worked at regarding how Chase was better then PNC and vice versa. Seriously.

I remember going to a Lions/Raiders game in 1990 when I was 15 years old and seeing over 10 fights break out in the stands. Almost 30 years later I still remember to this day. These clowns are setting a horrible, horrible example for the kids and the NFL. They should be more worried about this behavior than kneeling during the National Anthem.